12,000-record Exchange contact folder TOO SLOW! Too large?

[BJGAdmin]

I recently imported a 12,000-record contact database from<br>an old dBase application into Exchange Server5.5/Outlook2000<br>public contact folder.  I finally figured out how to import<br>and use the custom fields and designed and assigned a<br>custom form, but "Find" and "Advanced Find" functions are<br>MUCH TOO SLOW!<br><br>They take one minute and forty seconds to perform a<br>search.  I tried various settings such as unchecking<br>the "search all text" box in the regular "Find" window pane<br>and choosing different fields to search under the "Advanced<br>Find" window, but each time it takes approximately one<br>minute and forty seconds to search.<br><br>This is unacceptably slow for my requirements.  Is there a<br>way to "index" records in the Exchange database?  Is there<br>any way to make these searches go faster?  Or is my contact<br>database just too large?  Do I have to break it up into<br>several smaller folders?  Seems to me that Exchange is a<br>pretty weak corporate contact management system if a 12,000-<br>record database clogs it up...  My old dBase-based 16-bit<br>flat-file application returned searches in a few seconds.<br><br>Thanks for the help!<br><br><br>--  Aaron Cutchin<br>--  LAN Administrator, BJG

 

[lardum]

I would start out with running Performance Optimizer first of all.<br><br>We have about 20.000 contacts and it works fine...<br><br>Regards<br><br>Lars<br>

 

[BJGAdmin]

When you say it works fine, do you mean that you have the 20,000 contacts in a single public folder and that it searches through them in less than 10 seconds?<br><br>Thanks again for the info.<br><br>--&nbsp;&nbsp;Aaron

 

[lardum]

Sorry for the delay,<br><br>yes, we do have them in a single folder, and the response time is acceptable = less than 10 sec...<br><br>regards<br><br>Lars<br>

 

[Zelandakh]

You should run Exchange optimiser after each major change to the database - this is a MAJOR change!!! <p>Zel<br><a href=mailto:zel@zelandakh.co.uk>zel@zelandakh.co.uk</a><br><a href= > </a><br>